On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 11:26, David Jansen wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:57:02AM -0600, Gerry Tool wrote: > > Evolution seems to store its contact information in a file called > > addressbook.db. > > > > Does anyone know a program that will access this information outside > > Evolution? The .db extension suggests some database program. > > > It is, evolution is linked against the Berkeley DB libraries (older version) > and to confirm: > > $ file evolution/local/Contacts/addressbook.db > evolution/local/Contacts/addressbook.db: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 7, native byte-order) > > So in principle berkely db utilities should be able to access the addressbook. > Haven't tried though... Thanks for your reply. I did a man db and found information about dbopen. Do you know of any applications/utilities that can be used to open such a database and access the table information? Is mysql useful for accessing .db files? Thanks. Gerry
